2 Changes with Apache 2.5.0
4 *) core: Don't fail at startup with AH00554 when Include points to
5 a directory without any wildcard character. [Eric Covener]
7 *) core: Fail startup if the argument to ServerTokens is unrecognized.
8 [Jackie Zhang <jackie.qq.zhang gmail.com>]
10 *) mod_log_forensic: Don't log a spurious "-" if a request has been rejected
11 before mod_log_forensic could attach its id to it. [Stefan Fritsch]
13 *) ap_expr: Add SERVER_PROTOCOL_VERSION, ..._MAJOR, and ..._MINOR
14 variables. [Stefan Fritsch]
16 *) mod_rewrite: Stop mergeing RewriteBase down to subdirectories
17 unless new option 'RewriteOptions MergeBase' is configured.
18 PR 53963. [Eric Covener]
20 *) mod_session_dbd: fix a segmentation fault in the function dbd_remove.
21 PR 53452. [<rebanerebane gmail com>, Reimo Rebane]
23 *) core: New directive RegisterHttpMethod for registering non-standard
24 HTTP methods. [Stefan Fritsch]
26 *) mod_xml2enc: Fix problems with charset conversion altering the
27 Content-Length. [Micha Lenk <micha lenk info>]
29 *) core: New directive HttpProtocol which allows to disable HTTP/0.9
30 support. [Stefan Fritsch]
32 *) mod_allowhandlers: New module to forbid specific handlers for specific
33 directories. [Stefan Fritsch]
35 *) core: Be more correct about rejecting directives that cannot work in <If>
36 sections. [Stefan Fritsch]
38 *) core: Fix directives like LogLevel that need to know if they are invoked
39 at virtual host context or in Directory/Files/Location/If sections to
40 work properly in If sections that are not in a Directory/Files/Location.
43 *) mod_cache_disk: Resolve errors while revalidating disk-cached files on
44 Windows ("...rename tempfile to datafile failed..."). PR 38827
47 *) mod_proxy: Add ability to configure the sticky session separator.
48 PR 53893. [<inu inusasha de>, Jim Jagielski]
50 *) mod_proxy_ftp: Fix segfaults on IPv4 requests to hosts with DNS AAAA records.
51 PR 40841. [Andrew Rucker Jones <arjones simultan dyndns org>,
52 <ast domdv de>, Jim Jagielski]
54 *) ap_expr: Add req_novary function that allows HTTP header lookups
55 without adding the name to the Vary header. [Stefan Fritsch]
57 *) mod_ssl: Change default for SSLCompression to off, as compression
58 causes security issues in most setups. (The so called "CRIME" attack).
61 *) syslog logging: Remove stray ", referer" at the end of some messages.
64 *) configure: Fix processing of --disable-FEATURE for various features.
67 *) "Iterate" directives: Report an error if no arguments are provided.
70 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Optionally read passwords from stdin, as more
71 secure alternative to -b. PR 40243. [Adomas Paltanavicius <adomas
72 paltanavicius gmail com>, Stefan Fritsch]
74 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Add support for bcrypt algorithm (requires
75 apr-util 1.5 or higher). PR 49288. [Stefan Fritsch]
77 *) htpasswd, htdbm: Put full 48bit of entropy into salt, improve
78 error handling. Add some of htpasswd's improvements to htdbm,
79 e.g. warn if password is truncated by crypt(). [Stefan Fritsch]
81 *) ab: add TLS1.1/TLS1.2 options to -f switch, and adapt output
82 to more accurately report the negotiated protocol. PR 53916.
83 [Nicolás Pernas Maradei <nico emutex com>, Kaspar Brand]
85 *) mod_systemd: New module, for integration with systemd on Linux.
86 [Jan Kaluza <jkaluza redhat.com>]
88 *) core: ErrorDocument now works for requests without a Host header.
89 PR 48357. [Jeff Trawick]
91 *) --with-module: Fix failure to integrate them into some existing
92 module directories. PR 40097. [Jeff Trawick]
94 *) mod_headers: New params: %l for load averages, %i for an
95 idle percentage rating of httpd, and %b for a busy percentage
96 rating. [Jim Jagielski]
98 *) core: New functions to obtain load parameters: ap_get_sload()
99 and ap_get_loadavg(). [Jim Jagielski]
101 *) mod_cache_socache: New cache implementation backed by mod_socache
102 that replaces mod_mem_cache removed from httpd v2.2. [Graham
105 *) mod_auth_form: Support the expr parser in the
106 AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation, AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation and
107 AuthFormLogoutLocation directives. [Graham Leggett]
109 *) core: Add dirwalk_stat and pre_htaccess hooks, allowing mpm-itk
110 to be used without patches to httpd core. [Jeff Trawick]
112 *) mod_proxy: Allow for persistence of local changes (via the
113 balancer-manager) between graceful and normal restarts.
116 *) mod_slotmem: New provider function, fgrab(), which forces an
117 allocation of a slot. [Jim Jagielski]
119 *) mod_proxy_balancer: The nonce is only derived from the UUID iff
120 not set via the 'nonce' balancer param. [Jim Jagielski]
122 *) mod_lua: Add LuaInputFilter/LuaOutputFilter for creating content
123 filters in Lua [Daniel Gruno]
125 *) core: Apply length limit when logging Status header values.
126 [Jeff Trawick, Chris Darroch]
128 *) mod_ssl: Match wildcard SSL certificate names in proxy mode.
129 PR 53006. [Joe Orton]
131 *) WinNT MPM: Store pid and generation for each thread in scoreboard
132 to allow tracking of threads from exiting children via mod_status
133 or other such mechanisms. [Jeff Trawick]
135 *) mod_ssl: Catch missing or mismatched client cert/key pairs with
136 SSLProxyMachineCertificateFile/Path directives. PR 52212.
137 [Keith Burdis <keith burdis.org>, Joe Orton]
139 *) mod_lua: Allow scripts handled by the lua-script handler to return
140 a status code to the client (such as a 302 or a 500) [Daniel Gruno]
142 *) mod_proxy_ajp: Fix crash in packet dump code when logging
143 with LogLevel trace7 or trace8. PR 53730. [Rainer Jung]
145 *) mod_cache: Wrong content type and character set when
146 mod_cache serves stale content because of a proxy error.
147 PR 53539. [Rainer Jung, Ruediger Pluem]
149 *) mod_lua: Decline handling 'lua-script' if the file doesn't exist,
150 rather than throwing an internal server error. [Daniel Gruno]
152 *) mod_lua: Add functions r:flush and r:sendfile as well as additional
153 request information to the request_rec structure. [Daniel Gruno]
155 *) mod_lua: Add a server scope for Lua states, which creates a pool of
156 states with managable minimum and maximum size. [Daniel Gruno]
158 *) core: Add post_perdir_config hook.
159 [Steinar Gunderson <sgunderson bigfoot.com>]
161 *) mod_lua: Add new directive, LuaMapHandler, for dynamically mapping
162 URIs to Lua scripts and functions using regular expressions.
165 *) mod_lua: Add new directive LuaCodeCache for controlling in-memory
166 caching of lua scripts. [Daniel Gruno]
168 *) The following now respect DefaultRuntimeDir/DEFAULT_REL_RUNTIMEDIR:
169 - APIs: ap_log_pid(), ap_remove_pid, ap_read_pid()
170 - core: the scoreboard (ScoreBoardFile), pid file (PidFile), and
172 - mod_cache: thundering herd lock directory
173 - mod_lbmethod_heartbeat, mod_heartmonitor: heartbeat storage file
174 - mod_ldap: shared memory cache
175 - mod_socache_shmcb, mod_socache_dbm: shared memory or dbm for cache
178 *) mod_ssl: Add RFC 5878 support. [Ben Laurie]
180 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS-SRP (Secure Remote Password key exchange
181 for TLS, RFC 5054). PR 51075. [Quinn Slack <sqs cs stanford edu>,
182 Christophe Renou, Peter Sylvester]
184 *) core: Make ap_regcomp() return AP_REG_ESPACE if out of memory. Make
185 ap_pregcomp() abort if out of memory. This raises the minimum PCRE
186 requirement to version 6.0. PR 53284. [Stefan Fritsch]
188 *) suexec: Add --enable-suexec-capabilites support on Linux, to use
189 setuid/setgid capability bits rather than a setuid root binary.
192 *) suexec: Add support for logging to syslog as an alternative to logging
193 to a file; configure --without-suexec-logfile --with-suexec-syslog.
196 *) mod_ssl: Add support for TLS Next Protocol Negotiation. PR 52210.
197 [Matthew Steele <mdsteele google.com>]
199 *) various modules, rotatelogs: Replace use of apr_file_write() with
200 apr_file_write_full() to prevent incomplete writes. PR 53131.
201 [Nicolas Viennot <apache viennot biz>, Stefan Fritsch]
203 *) cross-compile: allow to provide CC_FOR_BUILD so that gen_test_char will
204 be compiled by the build compiler instead of the host compiler.
205 Also set CC_FOR_BUILD to 'cc' when cross-compilation is detected.
206 PR 51257. [Guenter Knauf]
208 *) core: In maintainer mode, replace apr_palloc with a version that
209 initializes the allocated memory with non-zero values, except if
210 AP_DEBUG_NO_ALLOC_POISON is defined. [Stefan Fritsch]
212 *) mod_policy: Add a new testing module to help server administrators
213 enforce a configurable level of protocol compliance on their
214 servers and application servers behind theirs. [Graham Leggett]
216 *) mod_firehose: Add a new debugging module able to record traffic
217 passing through the server in such a way that connections and/or
218 requests be reconstructed and replayed. [Graham Leggett]
228 [Apache 2.5.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
229 Apache 2.4.xx tree as documented below, except as noted.]
231 Changes with Apache 2.4.x and later:
233 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x/CHANGES?view=markup
235 Changes with Apache 2.2.x and later:
237 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/CHANGES?view=markup
239 Changes with Apache 2.0.x and later:
241 *) http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/CHANGES?view=markup